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Same experience in the early 90s, Midwest summer evening starwatching with my mom. We were pretty well in the habit of discerning satellite from plane, and saw

Same experience in the early 90s, Midwest summer evening starwatching with my mom. We were pretty well in the habit of discerning satellite from plane, and saw a satellite stop for a few seconds, go a different direction for a short bit, stop again for a second, then a different direction until the horizon.

ithkuil 6y ago
This sounds like apparent retrograde motion (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_retrograde_motion https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apparent_retrograde_motion). Not sure how's possible to observe this effect in real time though